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  2. List of English words with dual French and Old English variations

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    wish, will, yearning, longing, want (verb) desire (verb and noun) span distance tumble somersault drink (noun + verb) beverage, imbibe deal amount everlasting eternal freedom liberty brittle frail, fragile weak feeble, faint wild savage betrothal proposal kingship monarchy forebear, forefather ancestor reckless intrepid awesome, unbelievable

  3. Foreign-language influences in English - Wikipedia

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    The article's lead section may need to be rewritten.The reason given is: the current lead (i) contradicts the content of the Word origins section and a prominent figure legend, (ii) contains statements only appearing in the lead (violating WP:LEAD), and (iii) presents statements unsupported by citation (anywhere, violating WP:VERIFY), and thus, (iv) appears to violate WP:ORIGINAL RESEARCH.

  4. Crosslinguistic influence - Wikipedia

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    Crosslinguistic influence (CLI) refers to the different ways in which one language can affect another within an individual speaker. It typically involves two languages that can affect one another in a bilingual speaker. [1] An example of CLI is the influence of Korean on a Korean native speaker who is learning Japanese or French.

  5. Linguistic relativity - Wikipedia

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    [83] [84] Additionally, a large-scale data analysis using word embeddings of language models found no correlation between adjectives and inanimate noun genders, [85] while another study using large text corpora found a slight correlation between the gender of animate and inanimate nouns and their adjectives as well as verbs by measuring their ...

  6. Influence - Wikipedia

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    Influence or influencer may refer to: Social influence, in social psychology, influence in interpersonal relationships Minority influence, when the minority affect ...

  7. African-American Vernacular English - Wikipedia

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    Using the word bees even in place of be to mean is or are in standard English, as in the sentence "That's the way it bees" is also one of the rarest of all deep AAVE features today, and most middle-class AAVE speakers would recognize the verb bees as part of only a deep "Southern" or "country" speaker's vocabulary.

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .

  9. Part of speech - Wikipedia

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    Adjectives make the meaning of another word (noun) more precise. Verb (states action or being) a word denoting an action (walk), occurrence (happen), or state of being (be). Without a verb, a group of words cannot be a clause or sentence. Adverb (describes, limits) a modifier of an adjective, verb, or another adverb (very, quite). Adverbs make ...